The Belgrade Plate Archive Database : current status and scientific tasks

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Aug 2007

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Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 14 IAU XXVI General Assembly, 14-25 August 2006 Karel A. van der Hucht, ed., p.633

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The plate archives of the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory contain more than 15000 glass photographic plates from the period 1936-1996. In addition to the other equipment the Observatory disposed of four instruments devoted especially to astrophotographic observations: Zeiss Refractor 65/1055 cm with special camera, Zeiss Astrograph 16/80 cm, Zeiss Refractor 20/302 cm with two photographic cameras 16/80 cm and Askania Equatorial refractor 13.5/100 cm. Scientific observations were performed in the framework of the programs like: minor planet follow-up, search for the new objects (33 new minor planets were discovered from BAO), comet investigation, systematic observations of the Sun, Moon, giant planets, natural and artifical satellites, variable stars, double and multiple stars, stellar clusters, etc. Rare phenomena, such as passages of Mercury and Venus across the solar disc, lunar occultations of stars and planets and special objects have been observed too. The current status of Belgrade Astrophtopgraphic Plate Archive (BAPA) Database is reported and a brief description of all phases of such a large Project is given. The preliminary computer-readable catalogue of relevant data from the period 1936-1966 is finished as a representative sample only. The Catalogue BAPA is included into WFPDB ( ) as one of the basic sources. A couple of statistical distributions as an example of the kind of informations which will be possible to extract from the database is given.

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